Quote Originally Posted by Himiko
But..Mitochondrial Eve merely refers to the first human female with mitochondria, since those particular organelles are passed from mother to child rather than grown by the cell itself (Which also means she is the only human with an unbroken line of daughters from past to present, since all humans have mitochondria). Sure, the name is drawn from the Bible, but the theory is not religious in origin.
One thing I wonder about evolution is how can Eve have the genetic makeup of all humans (being the mother creature we all came from) and be only a few thousand years old? Let's say we all came from monkeys, and the monkeys all came from creatures of the sea, and the creatures of the sea came from ancient bacteria (watch Star Trek and you'll see the episode where they talked about this...was it season 7 or 10?). To have come all the way from monkeys, humans must be atleast 10,000+ years old. White people look totally different from "blacks" in many ways, people of Asian decent also have certain differences.....but I would consider Asians to be a more homologous group than perhaps Africans or Europeans. In fact, European immigration has been traced and the Germans/Austrians share a deeper resemblance with Slavs (including Russians, Belorussians, Yugoslavians, etc.) than they would like to admit. It's kind of funny that Hitler talked about the great white race and how Germans were Aryans, when the history books had an actual race of people from thousands of years back who were very close to our earliest ancestors....and these peoples moved to the area now known as India. When I hear arguments of racial superiority I like to refer back to that example.

So anyway, we are all related genetically(and that's something MOST people are either too stupid or too brainwashed to admit) and yet we act like total sh*t to each other. It's a very sad state of things. Whatever force/God/etc. created us would not be pleased to see how we the world is now. Then again, with all the false Gods and false beliefs people have, along with Space Aliens and Zombies and other crazy nonsense, I don't think humans could even begin to understand what "God" really is. Our very jaded human minds can understand science but to gain understanding of the Creator, whoever/whatever that is, is divine and something we obviously don't deserve to know. EVER!!